[Arkinsaw]

I preferred the myth.

The myth? Are you saying a passenger uprising was a myth? Are you saying that the terrorists intended to crash that plane into an empty field and the passengers did nothing to stop them?

What happened is:
a) the terrorists intended to crash that plane into the White House
b) the passengers attacked the cockpit
c) aware that the passengers were going to retake the plane the hijacker at the controls crashed the plane in an empty field instead.

The only new thing in this story is that the hijacker crashed the plane deliberately rather than a) loss of control, b) passengers retook plane and could not recover it.

P*sses me off that the author of this article is acting as if this fairly useless bit of information somehow invalidates the actions of the passengers which it in no way does.

They saved the damn White House from, pretty much, utter destruction. Myth my a**.

[pepperdog]

You are so right. This changes nothing, I don't even see why it was published. A really stupid article that changes absolutely nothing, the plane crashed because of the actions of the passengers PERIOD

[dpa5923]

Good recap.

[BibChr]

Once again, the AP struggles mightily to find a cloud in the silver lining...

...and fails.

Dan

[gridlock]

P*sses me off that the author of this article is acting as if this fairly useless bit of information somehow invalidates the actions of the passengers which it in no way does.

You're right on the money, Arkie.

And it p*sses me off as well.

There have been people who have been working to discredit this story from Day 1. The notion that ordinary people could have a positive effect by defending themselves and their country is just too dangerous to the people who want us to rely on our betters in the Government and UN to protect us from harm.

This triumphalist BS from Reuters, about how a terrorist crashed the plane, rather than a passenger in a struggle, is no information at all. As far as I'm concerned, having the terrorists crash the plane in order to avoid losing control is the functional equivalent of the plane crashing during a struggle for control. The only difference, small though it is, is that the terrorists were a bit more cowardly in this latest version of the story.

The men and women who fought back on Flight 93 were heroes. This story does nothing to contradict that fact, as much as Reuters might wish it to be so.

And in my heart I know that even as the plane went down, the heroes on board knew that they had done well, and that their struggle was ultimately successful, even as it ended in their own deaths. I can't prove it, and nobody can prove otherwise, but I know it to be true.